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A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we g

A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to find a diff place to eat. Wouldn't the user experience be better served by allowing ppl to enter a restaurant name into donteat.at from anywhere (like from their desktop after reading about it on yelp) and getting the health code violations? Wouldn't this save a lot of time and hassle? Whats the point of getting notified after getting to the restaurant?

bretthoerner 16y ago
> Whats the point of getting notified after getting to the restaurant? I don't know about you, but I'm not adding another step to the list of things I have to remember to do (manually) when picking a place to go. Foursquare is one of those things that some people will always use when they arrive somewhere, and so for them it's a 0-extra-action way of saying "Careful." Now, I don't actually use Foursquare, but I get why this would be neat for someone who does.
- coderdude 16y ago
  I'm with rumpelstiltskin on this. Being persuaded to not eat somewhere after getting there (maybe you made a reservation, even) and then having to make the decision to leave and find another restaurant is a total pain in the ass. Especially during, say, dinner time when the whole area is trying to eat as well. Maybe you went way out of your way to get to that restaurant. Maybe you told your date where you were going and she got all excited about it, now you're stuck eating there -- health code violations or not. That said, I think the idea of this service is totally cool. It just needs the ability to check before getting to a restaurant. That will complete the service IMO.
maxstoller 16y ago
I hear you. I'm working on it. :)
prawn 16y ago
If it were an add-on that popped-up in your browser when you were on a restaurant's Yelp/other page, or visiting the restaurant's site...? Lots of issues there though.
jorgeortiz85 16y ago
I think the idea is that it's insurance more than a planning tool. Most restaurants in NYC are not on the cusp of being shut down for health violations, but if you do happen to go to one of them (won't happen often, but will happen), then you'll probably want to know.
miniatureape 16y ago
You can already look these up easily from home on the restaurant inspection website[1]. But it's New York, so there's almost always another good restaurant nearby. This app should allow you to search google local or yelp to find one if the results it delivers aren't favorable. [1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml

bretthoerner 16y ago

> Whats the point of getting notified after getting to the restaurant? I don't know about you, but I'm not adding another step to the list of things I have to remember to do (manually) when picking a place to go. Foursquare is one of those things that some people will always use when they arrive somewhere, and so for them it's a 0-extra-action way of saying "Careful." Now, I don't actually use Foursquare, but I get why this would be neat for someone who does.

coderdude 16y ago
I'm with rumpelstiltskin on this. Being persuaded to not eat somewhere after getting there (maybe you made a reservation, even) and then having to make the decision to leave and find another restaurant is a total pain in the ass. Especially during, say, dinner time when the whole area is trying to eat as well. Maybe you went way out of your way to get to that restaurant. Maybe you told your date where you were going and she got all excited about it, now you're stuck eating there -- health code violations or not. That said, I think the idea of this service is totally cool. It just needs the ability to check before getting to a restaurant. That will complete the service IMO.

maxstoller 16y ago

I hear you. I'm working on it. :)

prawn 16y ago

If it were an add-on that popped-up in your browser when you were on a restaurant's Yelp/other page, or visiting the restaurant's site...? Lots of issues there though.

jorgeortiz85 16y ago

I think the idea is that it's insurance more than a planning tool. Most restaurants in NYC are not on the cusp of being shut down for health violations, but if you do happen to go to one of them (won't happen often, but will happen), then you'll probably want to know.

miniatureape 16y ago

You can already look these up easily from home on the restaurant inspection website[1]. But it's New York, so there's almost always another good restaurant nearby. This app should allow you to search google local or yelp to find one if the results it delivers aren't favorable. [1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml